On Tue, 31 Oct 2023 18:33:27 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> wrote:

> From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rost...@goodmis.org>
> 
> The eventfs_inode->is_freed was a union with the rcu_head with the
> assumption that when it was on the srcu list the head would contain a
> pointer which would make "is_freed" true. But that was a wrong assumption
> as the rcu head is a single link list where the last element is NULL.
> 
> Instead, split the nr_entries integer so that "is_freed" is one bit and
> the nr_entries is the next 31 bits. As there shouldn't be more than 10
> (currently there's at most 5 to 7 depending on the config), this should
> not be a problem.

Yeah, even 16 bit nr_entries is enough.. (maybe the biggest user is
syscall event group)

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhira...@kernel.org>

Thank you,


> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 63940449555e7 ("eventfs: Implement eventfs lookup, read, open 
> functions")
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rost...@goodmis.org>
> ---
>  fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 2 ++
>  fs/tracefs/internal.h    | 6 +++---
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
> index 754885dfe71c..2c2c75b2ad73 100644
> --- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
> +++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
> @@ -824,6 +824,8 @@ static void eventfs_remove_rec(struct eventfs_inode *ei, 
> struct list_head *head,
>               eventfs_remove_rec(ei_child, head, level + 1);
>       }
>  
> +     ei->is_freed = 1;
> +
>       list_del_rcu(&ei->list);
>       list_add_tail(&ei->del_list, head);
>  }
> diff --git a/fs/tracefs/internal.h b/fs/tracefs/internal.h
> index 64fde9490f52..c7d88aaa949f 100644
> --- a/fs/tracefs/internal.h
> +++ b/fs/tracefs/internal.h
> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ struct tracefs_inode {
>   * @d_parent:   pointer to the parent's dentry
>   * @d_children: The array of dentries to represent the files when created
>   * @data:    The private data to pass to the callbacks
> + * @is_freed:        Flag set if the eventfs is on its way to be freed
>   * @nr_entries: The number of items in @entries
>   */
>  struct eventfs_inode {
> @@ -38,14 +39,13 @@ struct eventfs_inode {
>        * Union - used for deletion
>        * @del_list:   list of eventfs_inode to delete
>        * @rcu:        eventfs_inode to delete in RCU
> -      * @is_freed:   node is freed if one of the above is set
>        */
>       union {
>               struct list_head        del_list;
>               struct rcu_head         rcu;
> -             unsigned long           is_freed;
>       };
> -     int                             nr_entries;
> +     unsigned int                    is_freed:1;
> +     unsigned int                    nr_entries:31;
>  };
>  
>  static inline struct tracefs_inode *get_tracefs(const struct inode *inode)
> -- 
> 2.42.0


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhira...@kernel.org>

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